[TYPO3-mvc] UnitTests for Controller

[dennis ahrens]

Hi Sebastian,

in my case the controller is just calling some methods on a parser
which build up a object and adds it to the repository.
Looks like this:

public function importAction($xmlFile) {
		$this->parser->loadXMLFile($xmlFile,'documenttemplate.xsd');
		if($this->parser->validate()) {
			$documentTemplate = $this->parser->convertIntoObject();
			$this->documentTemplateRepository->add($documentTemplate);
		}
	}

do you think it's best practice to write tests for all service methods
and don't write tests for the controller at all?

regards
Dennis

Am 26. November 2009 07:52 schrieb Sebastian Kurfürst <sebastian at typo3.org>:
> Hey Dennis,
>
> Controllers are really hard to test because they have so many
> dependencies... What is your controller doing?
>
> In most cases, I'd rather suggest to put the difficult functionality to
> a Service, and keep the controller slim and lean.
>
> Greets,
> Sebastian
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